Western red cedar is a popular ornamental and hedge tree in north america and great britain.
Red cedar wood tree.
Western red cedar wood is considered the most valuable of all softwoods because of its fine straight grain color flexibility and strength in proportion to weight however the most important property of cedar wood is its high impermeability to liquids and its natural phenol preservatives which make it ideally suited for.
The wood is used for shingles posts pilings boat making greenhouse fittings and other purposes for which resistance to moisture and decay is more important than strength.
Eastern red cedar wood.
Toona ciliata is a forest tree in the mahogany family which grows throughout southern asia from afghanistan to papua new guinea and australia.
Further west it is replaced by the related juniperus scopulorum rocky mountain juniper and to the southwest by.
This species is generally grown throughout the eastern side of the united states up to the height of 20 m to 40 m.
In tree form it is more commonly called eastern redcedar while the wood itself is usually referred to as aromatic red cedar.
Though eastern redcedar trees are widely distributed throughout the eastern half of the united states it is a very slow growing species and most trees harvested tend to be fairly small in diameter.
It is commonly known as the red cedar a name shared by other trees toon or toona also applied to other members of the genus toona australian red cedar burma cedar indian cedar moulmein cedar or the queensland red cedar.
However there are some trees that reach 100 m or taller.